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Link—Flight 370Search for MH370 will cost a quarter of a billion dollars-costs could increase from unforeseen circumstancesMolko 14 ( David, CNN International correspondent has followed MH 370 events since their inception, “MH370: Undersea Search Could Cost a Quarter Billion Dollars, Official Says,” 4/17, http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane) A prolonged undersea search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could cost nearly a quarter of a billion U.S. dollars if private companies are used, Australia's top transport official said Thursday. Martin Dolan emphasized that the $234 million price tag is a "ballpark rough estimate" of an extended search and salvage mission that includes an underwater vehicle. The Bluefin-21 is back at work Friday morning on a fifth trip into the southern Indian Ocean. Authorities said the vessel has scanned a total of 110 square kilometers (42.5 square miles) without making any "contacts of interest." Searchers seem to be preparing for the possibility that an underwater drone scan of the ocean may not yield debris from the plane immediately. Lack of progress angers Chinese families Underwater drone aborts first mission How hard is it to find a black box? The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysia's acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, said that authorities are looking at deploying more unmanned underwater probes. Officials might consider searching along a large portion of sea highlighted by a partial digital "handshake" between the jetliner and an Inmarsat PLC satellite, Dolan said. That arc of sea is over 370 miles long and 30 miles wide. Search will cost hundreds of millions – US entrance will result in them paying the billGollom 14 (Mark, syndicated foreign affairs columnist, “Malaysia Airlines MH370: Search Enters New Phase with New Hope,” 5/8, CBC News, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-mh370-search-enters-new-phase-with-new-hope-1.263472) Who will foot the bill? “If you knew the initial region you could easily program your vehicle and your survey, because you know what you’re going to find, more or less. And then you're just looking for an airplane," deYoung said. "Right now they’re probably doing the first really detailed sea bed maps that have ever been done there." But all this is costly and has raised questions as to who will foot the bill. "What I’m worried about is the [Malaysian] government not going to pour any more money to Malaysia Airlines," Schiavo said. "So if they stop funding the airlines, how committed are they going to be financially to this investigation?" Cost estimates for the first phase of the search have hovered around $50 million, with the second phase pinned at another $60 million. But most experts predict the costs could end up being in the hundreds of millions of dollars “I think they’re at a crossroads in terms of where to get equipment to do it and where to get money," Schiavo said. Truss suggested there will be future discussions about cost sharing with Malaysia, China and other parties, including companies like Boeing and Rolls Royce, who may have vested interests in what happened. He said they will also seek out international partners to acquire more equipment, and that the majority will have to be provided by the private sector. "Clearly they now realize that this is going to be an 'in for the long haul' kind of a search," deYoung said. "If they open up their search radius significantly in the next phase then that might be a sign that they're not completely confident the pings were from the plane. And if that’s true, now the time scale for the searching goes up from a few years to many years and many ships." Link—SMRSMR’s extremely expensive-development and productions cost billions of dollarsBullis 13 (Kevin, reporting as MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for energy has taken me, among other places, to the oil-rich deserts of the Middle East and to China, where mountains are being carved away to build the looming cities., “Can Small Reactors Ignite a Nuclear Renaissance?”, March 28, 2013, http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512896/can-small-reactors-ignite-a-nuclear-renaissance/) Small, modular nuclear reactor designs could be relatively cheap to build and safe to operate, and there’s plenty of corporate and government momentum behind a push to develop and license them. But will they be able to offer power cheap enough to compete with natural gas? And will they really help revive the moribund nuclear industry in the United States? Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it would provide $452 million in grants to companies developing small modular reactors, provided the companies matched the funds (bringing the total to $900 million). In November it announced the first grant winner—Babcock & Wilcox, a maker of reactors for nuclear ships and submarines—and this month it requested applications for a second round of funding. The program funding is expected to be enough to certify two or three designs. The new funding is on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars Babcock & Wilcox has already spent on developing its 180-megawatt reactor design, along with a test facility to confirm its computer models of the reactor. Several other companies have also invested in small modular reactors, including Holtec, Westinghouse Electric, and the startup NuScale, which is supported by the engineering firm Fluor (see “Small Nukes Get a Boost,” “Small Nuclear Reactors Get a Customer,” and “Giant Holes in the Ground”). The companies are investing in the technology partly in response to requests from power providers. One utility, Ameren Missouri, the biggest electricity supplier in that state, is working with Westinghouse to help in the certification process for that company’s small reactor design. Ameren is particularly worried about potential emissions regulations, because it relies on carbon-intensive coal plants for about 80 percent of its electricity production. As Ameren anticipates shutting down coal plants, it needs reliable power to replace the baseload electricity they produce. Solar and wind power are intermittent, requiring fossil-fuel backup, notes Pat Cryderman, the manager for nuclear generation development at Ameren. “You’re really building out twice,” he says. That adds to the costs. And burning the backup fuel, natural gas, emits carbon dioxide. Nuclear reactors that generate over 1,000 megawatts each can cost more than $10 billion to build, an investment that’s extremely risky for a company whose total assets are only $23 billion. Power plants based on small modular reactors, which produce roughly 200 to 300 megawatts, are expected to cost only a few billion dollars, a more manageable investment. “They’re simply more affordable,” says Robert Rosner, coauthor of a University of Chicago study of potential costs that the DOE has drawn on in evaluating the potential of small reactors. 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